Bálint SZOMBATHY
1950, Pacsér / Pačir, SRB – 2024, Budapest
He began his career as a founding member of the progressive Bosch + Bosch artist group. He worked in poetry, mail art, performance and applied graphics from the early 1970s. He was the editor of several art journals. He was a co-founder of the alternative publishing initiative Experimental Art Publisher in 1973, and of the international alternative art publication Wow in 1974. He is the author of numerous books. He lived in Hungary from 2000, and was an editor of Magyar Műhely from 2007. He received the Munkácsy Award in 2008 and was recognised with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary in 2018.